CppCast

Bjarne Stroustrup joins Phil and Timur. Bjarne talks to us about safety in C++ through profiles, as well as modules and concepts - and looks ahead to what else is coming next. News C++ Now 2023 videos ACCU 2023 videos JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023 Upcoming Boost 1.83 release Links P2739R0 - 'A call to action: Think seriously about “safety"; then do something sensible about it' P2687R0 - 'Design Alternatives for Type-and-Resource Safe C++' 'Contemporary C++ in Action' (video) - Daniela Engert

Tristan Brindle joins Timur and Phil. Tristan talks to us about a safer alternative to iterators and his library, Flux, that implements it. News 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer Big, combined, committee trip report from Varna CLion 2023.2 EAP4: AI Assistant "Making C++ Memory-Safe Without Borrow Checking, Reference Counting, or Tracing Garbage Collection" Links Episode 78 of CppCast, mentioning Cling Episode of ADSP recorded at C++ on Sea Episode 152 of CppCast, with Tristan and the C++ London Uni team Flux on GitHub

Joshua Berne joins Phil and Timur. Joshua talks to us about the previous week's ISO C++ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, then focuses on the current state of the contracts proposal that he has been central to, as well as a bit of its history. News ISO C++ trip report's from Varna: Herb Sutter's trip report Jonathan Müller's trip report GCC 14 NRVO enhancements (Reddit) P2025 proposes guaranteed NRVO How to get NRVO before C++26 XCode 15 beta Links P2831 - "Functions having a narrow contract should not be noexcept" P2521 - The current contracts MVP P2695 - "A proposed plan for Contracts in C++" P2811 - "Contract-Violation Handlers" P2834 - "Semantic Stability Across Contract-Checking Build Modes" P2877R0 - "Contract Build Modes, Semantics, and Implementation Strategies" P2751 - "Evaluation of Checked Contract-Checking Annotations" P2552 - "On the ignorability of standard attributes" p2786 - "Trivial relocatability options" P2839 - "Nontrivial Relocation via a New owning reference Type" P0843R8 - "inplace_vector"

Daniel Ruoso joins Phil and Timur. After covering a couple of blog posts and a new UI library, we welcome Daniel back to talk with us about modules, package and build systems and SG15, the tooling study group. We also revisit the Ecosystem International Standard. News Modern C++ In-Depth — Is string_view Worth It? How to check if a pointer is in a range of memory - Raymond Chen Nui - new C++ Webview UI library Nui on Reddit Timur's Undefined Behaviour survey Links P2898R0 - "Importable Headers are Not Universally Implementable" "Clang Automated Refactoring for everyone with clangmetatool" - Daniel's C++ Now 2019 talk P1689R5 - "Format for describing dependencies of source files" (Kitware)

Antony Peacock joins Timur and Phil. After rounding up the news, we chat with Antony about what it's like to work in finance as a C++ developer, the similarities and differences to games dev and how you can break in to a role in finance. We also discuss what it's like to work in tech as someone with dyslexia. News Visual Studio 17.6 released Valgrind 3.21 released Snitch 1.1 Meeting C++ Call for Speakers (until June 18) CppCon Call for Speakers (until June 25) Links P2547R1 - "Language Support for Customisable Functions" Maven on C++ "How to get into the tech industry" (Maven's blog) Interview question at Maven "C++ 20 Techniques for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) "C++ Concepts and Fireside Chat on Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) "C++ and Python for Algorithmic Trading" (webinar) Example algo trading code from webinar series (1) Example algo trading code from webinar series (2) Antony's article on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia Diversita (UK) P0201R6 - "polymorphic_value: A Polymorphic Value Type for C++" P1950R2 - "indirect_value: A Free-Store-Allocated Value Type For C++" EVE - the Expressive Vector Engine P1385R7 - "Linear Algebra" P1935R2 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units" mp-units - Mateusz Pusz' implementation of physical units P2547R0 - "Language support for customisable functions" "Why tag_invoke is not the solution I want" - Barry Revzin

Luis Campos, expert in C++ package management and contributor to Conan 2.0, discusses the recent release, challenges in C++ package and dependency management, lack of standardization in interacting with build systems, and the evolution of C++ with active community involvement and user feedback

Ashot Vardanian joins Timur and Phil. After some conference updates, news about the ISO C++ Developer Survey, Sonar integration in Compiler Explorer and some posts on modules and performance, we chat with Ashot Vardanian about AI and the infrastructure that underpins it. Ashot talks to us about some of the libraries and tools he and his startup have been developing over the past few years with some impressive numbers behind them. News Core C++ (Israel) - 5th-8th June Meeting C++ 2023 - 12th-14th November C++ Now 2023 - 7th-12th May C++ on Sea 2023 schedule announced - 27th-30th June CppNorth - 17th-19th July 2023 ISO C++ Developer Survey "Sonar ❤️ Compiler Explorer: Write clean C++ code inside your browser" "C++20 modules in clang" "Horrible Code, Clean Performance" Links Unum (Ash's AI research company) Unum repos on GitHub Cpp Armenia User Group

Mathew Benson joins Phil and Timur. After some news on new dev tool releases and some welcome improvements to iostreams in GCC13, we talk to Mathew Benson about what it's like to learn and use C++ in Africa and the implications for the hardware and our choices in programming language. Mathew also draws an interesting parallel to natural languages. News CLion 2023.1 released Qt Creator 10 released Buck2 released "A leaner <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13" Links Timur's three-question Undefined Behaviour survey CppAfrica on Twitter CppAfrica on Discord

Herb Sutter joins Phil and Timur. We catch up on the news about LLVM 16 being released, a new book on initialisation in C++ and a couple of new user groups. Then we talk to Herb about his new language/ alternate syntax, Cpp2, which compiles down to C++ in much the same way that C with Classes compiled down to C. News LLVM 16.0.0 released "C++ initialisation story" - a new book by Bartlomiej Filipek New user group forming in Prague - Miloš Anđelković New user group forming in Helsinki - Timur Doumler Links CppFront - the compiler for Cpp2 "Can C++ be 10x Simpler & Safer?" - Herb's CppCon keynote introducing Cpp2 and CppFront

Andreas Weis joins Timur and Phil. After some news about Boost, std::format and performance, Andreas talks to us about safety critical application domains, safety in C++ in general, and the difference between safety in security. News Boost libraries may drop support for older language versions "Fun with printing tables with std::format and C++20" - Bartlomiej Filipek "C++20 Formatting Library, Parts 1. 2 and 3" - Gajendra Gulgulia "Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, 1/2" - Ivica Bogosavljevic using std::cpp (conference in Madrid) Links MUC++ (The Munich C++ User Group) ComicSansMs - Andreas on StackOverflow The EU's Cyber Resilience Act "Why not simply implement borrow checking in C++?" - Sean Baxter on Twitter P2771R0 - "Towards memory safety in C++" "Rust Safety is not superior to C++" - Bjarne Stroustrup P2739R0 - "A call to action: Think seriously about 'safety'; then do something sensible about it" P2759R1 - "DG Opinion on safety for ISO C++" P2723R1 - "Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration" D2795R0 - "Correct and incorrect code, and 'erroneous behaviour'" P2809R0 - "Trivial infinite loops are not Undefined Behavior" MISRA